Three choices for 2013 and beyond

in the face of climate change

The goal of the Option 13 effort is to galvanize international action to put in place a global mechanism of sufficient scope to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system in advance of 2013.

We can’t meet global goals without a global mechanism.

We need the same price on carbon everywhere or it won't work anywhere.

We Need A Global Carbon Tax

Wall Street Journal, December 3, 2008

By Ralph Nader and Toby Heaps

If President Obama wants to stop the descent toward dangerous global climate change, and avoid the trade anarchy that current approaches to this problem will invite, he should take Al Gore’s proposal for a carbon tax and make it global. A tax on CO2 emissions—not a cap-and-trade system—offers the best prospect of meaningfully engaging China and the U.S., while avoiding the prospect of unhinged environmental protectionism. [ read more ... ]